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ea0026p32 | Adrenal cortex | ECE2011

Mission study: an international observational study on the mortality in Cushing’s syndrome

Pivonello R , Melnichenko G , Zacharieva S , Gu F , Oscar B , Shah N S , Gaillard R , Colao A

Cushing’s syndrome (CS) is a rare but severe disease associated with an increased mortality especially due to cardiovascular diseases, and associated with various systemic complications, including hypertension, glucose intolerance or diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia and coagulopathy. Few studies have systematically evaluated the mortality of CS in a large and worldwide population of CS. The MISSION study is a retrospective study aimed at assessing the mortality in a large ...